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Vegan Shark's avatar

Thanks, Mellis. A thoughtful counterpoint to all the "a plague on both your houses" comments here and elsewhere. I have plenty of worries about Trump's reboot (almost all concerning his foreign policy moves), but you're right. We dodged a bullet ... but only by the margin that the president did on that grim day last July in Butler, PA.

However, to adapt what an IRA member said to Margaret Thatcher after a failed attempt to kill her: "You were lucky. But you have to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once."

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Mellis's avatar

Evil never rests.

“We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”

- President Ronald Reagan

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Sedgwick C. Hartung's avatar

"You were lucky. But you have to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once."

That's true in the short term, but not in the long term. In the long term, we have full control. Remembering that is the life problem.

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Alzaebo's avatar

All we have to do is stand up, and none could or can oppose us.

We are the people who casually conquered the world, without even noticing we did it.

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